Re: A-posteriori .cabal updates don't help (much) with optimistic-upper-bounds (was: Gearing up for a cabal-install-1.16.0 release)

2012-12-03 Thread Ben Millwood
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > > If the scheme is going to work at all, it must update _every_ version of > text-foo that could be affected. > > Is that an unrealistic expectation? It at least demands the process be automatable, but then perhaps that's already a good id

Re: A-posteriori .cabal updates don't help (much) with optimistic-upper-bounds

2012-12-03 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
Malcolm Wallace writes: > On 3 Dec 2012, at 11:35, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: >> 2) there's a package text-foo which depends on 'text >= 0.10' (i.e. with no >> upper bound), for which N versions exist on Hackage (all with >> the same 'text >= 0.10' constraint): >> >> 0.1.0, 0.1.0.1, 0.

patch applied (hackage-server): "Use pure restore for build reports" and 2 others

2012-12-03 Thread devnull
Mon Dec 3 09:23:07 GMT 2012 Edsko de Vries * Use pure restore for build reports Ignore-this: 20c2365b3052a865266be10a57654e27 This is the last feature to be converted. Next up: remove all the scaffolding and the now obsolete impure restore types. M ./Distribution/Server/Features/

Re: A-posteriori .cabal updates don't help (much) with optimistic-upper-bounds (was: Gearing up for a cabal-install-1.16.0 release)

2012-12-03 Thread Malcolm Wallace
On 3 Dec 2012, at 11:35, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: > > 2) there's a package text-foo which depends on 'text >= 0.10' (i.e. with no > upper bound), for which N versions exist on Hackage (all with > the same 'text >= 0.10' constraint): > > 0.1.0, 0.1.0.1, 0.1.0.2, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.2, ...

A-posteriori .cabal updates don't help (much) with optimistic-upper-bounds (was: Gearing up for a cabal-install-1.16.0 release)

2012-12-03 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
Duncan Coutts writes: [...] > I mentioned I'd written a feature to update the .cabal file we use > when building with the same one as is in the package archive index. > I've now pushed that to the head branch. I think it would be good to > have on the 1.16 branch and included in the cabal-instal